, 1887-06-09
A DROUGHT PREVAILED.
Beadls Tries in Vain to Find an Open
Door,
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DoOEs
Especial Correspondence
New YORK, May 49,
Sunday was day without precedent in
this city--the like of it never was since the
Dutch Puritan rule was overthrown, and per-
haps never will be again. On all Manhattan
Island prohibition was enforced with a vigor
and success unknown I'm any prohibition
state; from Harlem river to the Battery, and
from Hudson to East river, not a drop of
anything intoxicating could be bought by the
most talented evader. The reason of this ex-
traordinary rigor lies in one fact. The liquor
men were for once in perfect accord with the
police, the latter nothing like as anxious to
enforce the law as the former were to keep it.
About dark Saturday the signs of COM
ing drought were apparent in all the public
resorts Men who never before carried a
bottle were getting their flasls filed, and
bottled beer was going out of the big cellars
by the wagon load. When it was known for
n certainty that the hotels would not sell any
thing next day, even to their regular guests,
there was something like panic.
"Won't you even send bottle Of wine to
my roomp asked an English American gem
tleman at the Hotel Brunswick.
mot a drop of anything stronger than
apolinaris," was the reply; "better get all
you'll need tonight"
WY WeIi, stiu up u Puib DOtUc VI COCh-
tails, quart of prime whisky and little
'go' OF brandy. just send em to my room,
now" And it was done.
Sunday drove to Central park soon after
noon, with Hon. John W. Bookwalter the well
known manufacturer, Of Ohio, and the signs
of distress at various places showed that the
sudden dryness had caught many unpre-
pared. 1t seemed to be taken for granted
that newspaper man would certainly know
of some place where the trustworthy could
refresh; but, for veal or for woe, newspaper
men were as ignorant as common people. The
universal testimony was that not one hotel
in the city had sold so much as a glass of wine
or pony of beer; and police reports so far
pretty nearly confirm it, Verify, it was New
Yorks day for perfect sobriety, the first she
has had for sixty years OF more, and prob
ably the last she will suffer- for a century
But the park was Mt its loveliest-New York
ers say it Is lovelier now than ever before
and the array Of fine turnouts well as of
people was the greatest for years This is
perhaps the more remarkable, since some
authorities estimate that $4,000 or 100, 900
extra excursionists left the city OH account of
prohibition.
Mr.. Bookwalter, after returning early this
year from his third extended tour in Italy,
Egypt and the far east, has thrown himself
into business again with renewed activity,
and is projecting extensive improvements Oh
his lands in the west as well as further in
vestments. His recent articles on economic
subjects, especially on the general decline of
prices and danger to .he American grain
trade, have attracted great attention both
here and abroad. At the st. Vincent hotel
in the park we met ex-senator Dorsey with
Mr.. Lake, OF The Tribune; and after care
full comparison of notes and an earnest ques-
tiOuinO the vynifara tba txyr man and
two journalists sat down to q bottle of-apol.
lnaris water This settles the fact that pro-
hbition was indeed thorough last Sunday I'm
New York, for when two newspaper men, a
travelled millionaire and Senator Dorsey cam
not find the sprituous, you can safely swear
that none was to be had. j. II. BEADLE.